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Building with India 


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Prepared by 


Carrie M. Kerschner 
1922-23 


Woman's Missionary Society of the Reformed Church in the 
U. S., Carrie M. Kerschner, Reformed Church Building, 15th 
and Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.. and W. M. S.. 14 Remmele 
Block, Tiffin, Ohio. Price 10c. each, 50c. a dozen with leaf- 


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PAGE OF DIRECTIONS 


In presenting this Outline on “Building with India” 
an attempt has been made to prepare programs practical 
for Missionary Societies. They are merely suggestive. 
Those desiring more difficult programs will find it easy 
to make additions. 

“Building with India” is so readable that most mem- 
bers will want a copy. Purchase a map and use it freely. 
Supplementary reading can be found in the Bibliography 
suggested and we especially recommend “Lighted to 
Lighten.” 

The theme for “DEVOTIONS” is based on I Cor. 3:9. 
“We are workers together with God.’ Give at least ten 
minutes to the devotional period either at the opening 
or close of your meeting. Put the Gospel message just 
where it fits best. The opening prayer is from the Prayer 
Calendar. Use Dr. Fleming’s prayer to close your meet- 
ing. 

MUSIC:: Most of the hymns are taken from the Mis- 
sionary Hymnal. Where others are suggested they may 
be found in the Reformed Church Hymnal. 


POSTERS: If you have started that “Cuttings’ Bur- 
eau” or “Scrap Book” you will be ready with much sup- 
plemental data and many pictures of India which have 
been appearing in the various periodicals. Some one 
in your congregation is surely taking such magazines 
as “The Christian Herald,” the “National Geographic,” 
the “Missionary Review of the World” or “Asia.” Always 
visualize statistics. Shading pens or a small brush are 
better than trying to write with ordinary pen. Use Staf- 
ford’s Show Case Ink and Bristol Board 4 or 6 ply, for 
Posters. 


4 PROGRAM OUTLINE FOR 


MISSIONARY PERSONALS. These should be gleaned 
by the “Clippings’ Secretary” from the Missionary Maga- 
zines or Church papers. 


VARIETY in the presentation of each chapter is re- 
commended. Let the Leader of Chap. 1 briefly (not more 
than three minutes review the important facts in Chap. 
III of “The Kingdom and the Nations” before she “bounds” 
India. If possible, allow one hour for study. Programs 
as planned are about one and one-half hours in length 
for business and study. Shorten or lengthen as desired. 
The pages are given merely for reference and not with 
the idea that parts be read. Learn to TELL events in- 
stead of reading them. 


SOCIAL PERIOD: The Indian names are so new and 
strange to many of us that the contests and games sug- 
gested will help fix them in our memory. The leaders 
should be able to pronounce the words (a dictionary will 
help). Prepare your own “Indian Dictionary” of all the 
Indian places, persons, nouns, religious terms, and Mis- 
sionaries’ names found in the book. 


BIBLIOGRAPHY: Magazines—Outlook of Missions, 
Missionary Review of the World, Christian Her- 
ald, Asia. 

Books: 

“Peoples and Problems of India,’ Sir Thos. W. 
Holderness. 50c. 

“Schools with a Message in India,” D. J. Flem- 
ing. $2.40. 

“Lilavati Singh,” Florence L. Nichols, Woman’s 
For. Mis. Soc. M. E. church, 581 Boylston St., 
Boston, Mass. 29c. 

“Lighted to Lighten”, Alice Van Doren, and “India 
On the March”, Dr. Alden Clark. Order from 


WOMAN’S MISSIONARY SOCIETIES D 


Woman’s Missionary Society Depository, Phila- 
delphia or Tiffin. 50c each. 

“Kim,” Kipling. Public Library. 

“India, Beloved of Heaven,” Badley. The Abing- 
don Press, 150 Fifth Ave., New York. $1.00. 


- WHERE TO ORDER. Packets, Mission Study Books, 
Maps, etc,: Eastern and Potomac Synods order from Miss 
Carrie M. Kerschner, Room 408, Reformed Church Bldg., 
15th and Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. All other Synods 
order from Woman’s Missionary Society, 14 Remmele 
Block, Tiffin, Ohio. 


MAGAZINES: “The Missionary Review of the World” 
and “Everyland”: All orders to be sent to Miss Carrie 
M. Kerschner, (address above.) “The Outlook of Mis- 
sions”: order from the office of the “The Outlook of Mis- 
sions,” 15th and Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. 


6 PROGRAM OUTLINE FOR 


SOCIAL SUGGESTIONS 


SEPTEMBER. 


HIDDEN NAMES GAME. Make a list of all the names 
of Indian persons and places mentioned in Chap. I-II 
and display them in the room. Have prepared sufficient 
slips of paper on which appear about twenty-five jumbled 
Indian words. The object of the game is to familiarize 
those taking part with the Indian names by seeing who 
can find the correct names of the places and persons con- 
cealed in the list of jumbled words. Allow ten or fifteen 
minutes for the game. 

ANNOUNCE A WORD CONTEST to begin at once and 
end in January. Divide your. society into two groups. 
The contest is to determine which side can find the most 
Indian words in the entire book. The losing side is to 
serve a lunch to the winners, with Indian menu, at Feb- 
ruary meeting. Suggestions for lunch will appear in 
The Outlook of Missions in November. 


DECEMBER. 

Write a letter to Miss Emma Schweigert, Woodstock 
School, Missoorie, India. (Postage 5 cts.) 

IMPERSONATION GAME. Designate each one to 
represent a person, pinning on her back a slip of paper 
on which has been written the name of one of the mis- 
sionaries to India. Distribute slips of paper and see who 
can secure the most names without letting any one else 
See who you are. (You yourself do not know). 


FEBRUARY. 

Make this a PATRIOTIC MEETING. Display flags of 
the United States, India, and the Christian Flag. Tilak 
wrote the National Hymn of India. Words will appear 
in December issue of Outlook. 

Luncheon to be served by the losers in the “Word 
Contest” announced in September meeting. 


WOMAN’S MISSIONARY SOCIETIES 7 


SEPTEMBER. 


India’s Heritage. Chapter I. 


“WE are laborers together with God.’ 


vn. Jesus Calls Us” No..28. 

Discuss observance of Thank Offering service. 

Missionary Personals: Our Women Missionaries in Ja- 
pan. (See page of Directions. 2 Min.) 

Devotions: Theme—“God’s dependence upon each indi- 
miduaie oeMattiw4:19.“I will make YOU.’ Prayer. 

Short sketch of author*. 2 min. 

“Bound” India. 2 min. 

Impersonation—India’s Inheritance** (Parts J-II-III.) 10 
min. 

Contrast Oriental passiveness and Western activity (IV) 
2 min. 

Research, India’s Three Great Religions***. 9 min. 

India’s “Holy Men” (V). 2 min. 

Gandhi. 8 min. 

Pandita Ramabai.§ 8 min. 

India’s National Consciousness (VII-VIII). 3 min. 

India’s Contribution to the Kingdom (IX). 5 min. 

Prayer. 

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*Outlook of Missions—July, 1922. 

**7Tndia acknowledges the Heavenly Father as the giver of 
her architectural, cultural, dramatic, and literary inhert- 
tance. God made and God hath given. Include ‘“lm- 
portant Facts’? given on Bookmark in packet. 

***FTinduism, Jainism, Buddhism given by three women. 
(Crusade of Compassion or any Encyclopedia). 

+Atlantic Monthly, May 1922. Christian Herald, Jan. 21, 1922. 

§Leaflet in packet. 

|See Social Suggestions. 


8 PROGRAM OUTLINE FOR 


OCTOBER. 


Handicaps to Progress. Chapter II. 


“We ARE Laborers together with God.” 


Hymn: “O Jesus I have Promised’, No. 53. 
Devotions: John 15: 5-14. 
Theme. “The present tense of our service.” 
ARE we? 
Prayer. 
Study of Budget Leaflet. To see what we ARE doing 
inn1922-23.7 )10simnin, 
Hymn: “Is thy Cruse of Comfort failing’’? 
India’s Health Bulletin (I). 3 min. 
Physical and Mental Condition (II). 5 min. 
Biblical Vaccine*. 4 min. 
Economic Conditions and Causes. (III-IV-V). 7 min. 
Agricultural Remedies “The Gospel of the Plow’.** 
(VIDS Sein: 
A Trio of Ailments. 15 min. 
a. Industrial (VII and VIII). 
b. Educational (IX). 
ce. Social (X). 
The Condition of Women. (XI) 10 min. 
Religious Condition. (XII) 5 min. 
Talk: Christianity’s Healing Power.*** 4 min. 
“The Closed Gate”.** 2 min. 
Prayer. 


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*Search the Scriptures for passages which will heal the four 
diseases mentioned. Let every one take part. 

**Leaflet in Packet. 

***Send either to Mrs. Krout or Miss Kerschner for ‘“Chris- 
tianity and Health’’, 10 cents. 


WOMAN’S MISSIONARY SOCIETIES 9 


NOVEMBER. 


Striving and Aspiration. 
Chapter III. 


“We are LABORERS together with God.” 


Hymn: “Go Labor on! Spend and be spent’. No. 85 
Missionary Personals; North Japan College Teachers. 
Devotions: Theme. “Laborers All.” 2 Cor. 6:1, Matt. 
9:37, I Tim. 5:18. Prayer. 
India’s Social Reformer. (Page 75). 3 min. 
Biographical: Sketches (Research work). 5 min. each. 
a. Carey. 
b. Duff. 
A Sextette of India’s “Forward Movement’’* (pp. 76-86). 
10 min. 
Monologues: (V). 7 min. 
a. Ramabai Ranade. (p. 89). 
b. Snehalata—India’s “Joan of Arc.” (p. 91). 
India’s Political Reform (VI-VII-VIII).** 10 min. 
The Gandhi Movement (IX). 5 min. 
Our Attitude and Policy toward India’s Need and De- 
sire (X). 5 min. 
Prayer. 


*To be given by six women. 
**Missionary Review of World, April and May, 1922. 

“The consequence of my long and uninterrupted re- 
searches into religious truth has been that I have found the 
doctrines of Christ more conducive to moral principles and 
better adapted for the use of rational beings than any other 
which have come to my knowledge.” (Ram Roy). 


10 PROGRAM OUTLINE FOR 


DECEMBER. 


Co-operation of the Christian West. 
Chapter IV. 


“We are Laborers TOGETHER with God.” 


Song Service: Hymns named at top of age 119, Chap- 
ter IV. 


Missionary Personals: News of Workers in Yochow, 
China. 


Devotions: “Laborers TOGETHER”, John 15:1-17. (Read 
responsively).. ‘ 


Prayer. 
Our Indian Album.* 8 min. 
Story of “Prayer Meeting Hill.’’; 
The Value of Educational Missions (I). 3 min. 


Union Colleges of India.§ 8 min. 
a. Isabella Thoburn College. 
b. Woman’s Christian College, Madras. 


Contribution of the Reformed Church to Christian Edu- 
cation in India.** 3 min. 


Practical and Profitable By-Products of Christian Mis- 
sions (III). 10 min. 
a. Dairy Farming. 
b. Weaving. 
c. Lace making, etc. 


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Medical Missions (IV). 
Union Missionary Medical School in Vellore.§ 
Life of a Lady Doctor in India.*** 
Doctors in India. 


Social Results: Aims and Methods of Missions (V-VI). 
8 min. 


Qualifications of a Missionary CVIL) soe un. 
Social Period... Game.|| 


Prayer. 


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*Arrange in album form pictures of as many pioneer mis- 
sionaries aS you can secure. Names mentioned on pages 
116-123. Where no pictures are available make it a 
“word” picture. 

**Picture Emme Schweigert, September 1921, Outlook of Mis- 
sion, p. 419. Letter Emme Schweigert, April 1921, Out- 
look of Missions, p. 188. Additional information in Sep- 

tember 1922 Outlook of Missions. 

***Missionary Review of the World, May 1922. 

tOutlook of Missions, October 1921. 

§Booklets 5c each. Send to W. M. S., Tiffin, or Miss Kersch- 
ner, Philadelphia. 

||See Social Suggestions. 


12 PROGRAM OUTLINE FOR 


JANUARY. 


The Distinctive Opportunity in India, 
Chapter V. 


“We are Laborers Together WITH God.” 


Solo: “Coming, Coming, Yes, They Are.’’+ 


Devotions: Co-Workers WITH India. 
Christ the Master Builder, I Cor. 3:9-14. 
Prayer. 


Slavery in India (I). 15 min. 
a. Physical. 
b. Social. 
ec. Spiritual. 


Moving Christward* (II). 8 min. 

The Fruits of the Vineyard** (III). 8 min. 

The Testing Tube of Public Opinion (IV). 3 min. 
Difficulties of the Task*** (V). 10 min. 


ARE we Co-workers with India**** (VI). 5 min. 
Prayer 


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*Missionary Review of the World, April 1922. pp.283-297. 

**Christian Herald, October 8, 1921, p. 733. 

***Missionary Review of the World, April 1922, p. 280. 

****Missionary Review of the World, April 1922, p. 275. 
Visualize statistics ‘Protestant Missions To-day’ taken 

from Bookmark. 


“It is not the work that kills us, it is this weight of 
unmet need.”’ 


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FEBRUARY. 


The Indian Church. 
Chapter VI. 


“We are Laborers Together with GOD.” 


Hymn: “The Morning Light Is Breaking.” 
Missionary Personals: Our Workers in Shenchow, China. 


Devotions: Matt. 19:26; Mark 10:27; Luke 1:37; Luke 
18 :27-31. 


Prayer. 


Study: An Indian Church for India. (J-II). 2 min. 
Work of Narayan Vaman Tilak (pp. 186-189). 5 min. 
Sadhu Sungar Singh—‘“The Apostle of the Bleeding 

Peet (111). 10-min. 
The Influence of Christian Community (IV). 2 min. 


Problems of Indian Church (V-VI). 7 min. 


Who’s Who in India. 8 min. 

Rev. Azariah (205). 

Rev. Chatterjee (205-206). 

Dr. Gurabai and family (206). 
‘d. Miss Bose (207). 


Stet 


“Prem Sangat Mela” (208). 3 min. 


Personally Conducted Tour. 5 min. 
1. Poona. 
2. Lahore. 
3. Benares. 


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A Galaxy of India’s Stars (210-213). 5 min. 
Solo “In the Secret of His Presence.’*** 
“Doers of the Word” (214-216). 3 min. 
Final Challenge of India**** (IX). 5 min. 


Prayer. 


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**Missionary Review of World, April 1922, p. 289. 

***Blue Missionary Hymnal, p. 34. 

****Read as a climax page 29, beginning at top of page ‘to 
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